Monthly Archive for July, 2015

: July, 2015

It’s national Sisters’ Day on Sunday, August 2, and we’re inviting readers to share photos of themselves with their sisters and we’ll feature a gallery on the homepage. Send images to moms@sfgate.com with caption details and the word “sisters” in the subject line. Deadline: Friday, July 31 at noon. When my oldest daughter comes home …

A friend of mine who is the director of Sweet Peas preschool in San Francisco’s Mission District recently posted the image above on Facebook with the message: “Try as I might to be an open-minded city girl, this is still so disturbing to me! Especially a half-block away from my preschool.” “This is what our children …

Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, passed in 1991, but the beloved children’s author lives on through the ridiculous rhymes and illustrations featured in dozens of books read by children throughout the world. And today a newly discovered illustrated book arrives in bookstores. “What Pet Should I Get?” captures that classic childhood moment of …

Two Oklahoma boys were sunburned so severely during a day care outing on a blazing hot day they had to be airlifted to a Texas children’s hospital. The boys’ mother Shaunna Broadway of Vinita is outraged because the center failed to apply sunscreen and shared graphic images of horrific blisters covering her boys’ backs on …

The new Vacation movie hitting theaters July 29 is all about nostalgia. Drawing from the original 1983 National Lampoon’s Vacation, the Warner Bros. comedy tells the story of Clark and Ellen Griswold’s grownup son Rusty (Ed Helms) taking his wife (Christina Applegate) and kids down memory lane on the same road trip to Walley World his father dragged his …

Last week a heated online exchange between a Maine restaurant owner and a mother of a fussy child became an international news story. Darla Neugebauer ofMarcy’s Diner screamed at the almost 2 year old disrupting other diners in her restaurant, and the offended mother posted a rant about the incident on Facebook. Neugebauer fired off …

You step on your kid’s sharp Lego piece—ouch! You want to sleep in on a Saturday, but your 2-year-old wakes at 6 a.m. begging to go to the park. You leave your toddler alone for five minutes to go to the bathroom and he draws all over the white couch with a red marker. These …

Arendelle has a new honorary princess thanks to Kristen Bell. In character as Princess Anna from Frozen, the sweet-voiced actress left an adorable message for a 6-year-old girl with a cancerous brain tumor, and you can see Avery Huffman’s heart-warming reaction in video footage captured by her father. When Huffman hears Bell saying, “Hi this is princess …

Every summer when temperatures spike, the news is rife with stories of babies and young children who are left in hot cars and die. Last year, 31 children died. So far 10 have died this year. On average, 37 children die in hot cars a year. These deaths can happen fast as a child’s body temperature rises …

An 8-year-old Oklahoma girl with a prosthetic leg was left devastated when she was denied access to a water slide and ordered to climb back down the stairs on Saturday. An attendant at Frontier City’s Wild West Water Works in Oklahoma City allegedly stepped in front of Averie Mitchell and blocked her from entering the …